It is just a short piece demonstrating that the drumbeat has begun to pressure western governments to resettle Syrian refugees in order to supposedly take the pressure off of Turkey and other Muslim countries. This is Syria’s civil war, right?
Leading UK refugee charities have called on the Government to work with European Union member states to establish a resettlement programme in the UK and Europe for Syrian refugees.
The Refugee Council, Refugee Action, the Scottish Refugee Council and the Welsh Refugee Councilare calling for a co-ordinated effort across Europe to relieve some of the pressure on the burgeoning refugee camps on the Syrian border.
Readers in the UK should be closely following the ‘work’ of the groups making up the refugee industry in the UK.
The photo is from this storyin The Guardian—Tough time for Turks.
Brisbane crowds protest Kevin Rudd’s so-called PNG solution. Photo: Harrison Saragossi
Australia has a boat people problem. Too many aliens are attempting to land there with hopes of getting asylum and the new government under Kevin Rudd has a plan. We told you about it here.
See the latest on anti-Rudd protests at the Brisbane Times. (Photo is from that opinion piece)
Clearly the Marxists* don’t like the plan and so therefore all they know how to do is to call those who oppose their wide-open borders multi-culti dreamland “racists.”
Calling all Socialists and Communists—-please tell us if you have any limit to the number of people who could migrate to your country. Do you believe that countries like Australia should just open its borders to any one who wishes to come? How would the workers pay for all those needy people? What happens to Marxism when the largest numbers of asylum seekers are Muslims who don’t believe in Marxism, and they ultimately become the majority?
I’m serious (I would like to ask this girl carrying the sign) would any reader who considers himself (or herself) a Socialist please tell us if there is a limit for you—a magic number that would be too many?
* Photo: See the sign with SA at the bottom. That must be Australia’s ‘Socialist Alternative’––a Marxist organization.
For new readers, visit our Australia category where this will be our 104th post on the problems with refugees, asylum seekers and illegal aliens downunder. From my vantage point it seems that immigration is the major policy issue facing that country right now.
This story is a couple of days old, so it’s possible the Lefties have already killed the sign project.
I have to laugh when I think of Presidential candidate Romney suggesting illegal aliens in the US “self-deport” and the American media went nuts on him.
This dramatic measure in the UK shows how serious a problem illegal (and legal!) migration to the UK has become because, as a member state of the EU, they are not completely free to close their borders or to reject asylum seekers.
Mobile billboards calling on illegal immigrants to leave the UK have been criticized as a step too far by politicians. Campaign backers have hailed the initiative as an “alternative to arrest,” while critics decry the adverts as outright “intimidation.”
As part of a pilot scheme to help reduce illegal immigration in Britain, vans with billboards emblazoned with the slogan “Go home or face arrest” will be driven around London boroughs.
Read it all and watch the video.
Meanwhile in the US we have the Obama Administration, the Gang of Eight, and the refugee contractorsall pushing to open US borders to illegal aliens even wider!
…..but no one ever mentions that in fluffy-puffy articles like this one.
Your tax dollars!
Smell the zinnias? You paid for them!
It all sounds so lovely, sniffing the zinnias! (Nevermind, that zinnias are virtually odorless).
Here at GMA News we have another article about New Roots, the refugee gardening project, funded by grants from the federal Office of Refugee Resettlement to the resettlement contractors.
The program costs around a cool $1 million a year. It is all about “reconnecting” and “adjusting,” and multi-million dollar a year contractors like the International Refugee Committee (IRC) with major PR campaigns know how to spin the news so that you think this is one more of their “charitable” projects not yours.
For new readers the IRC is the contractor which has recently hired David Miliband, former Labor Party honcho from the UK, to head the organization for a cool $450,000 plus a year salary and benefits.
Here is just one recent list of grantees for the RAPP—imagine how much these veggies and flowers are worth when one garden project gets on average $80,000 from the US treasury!
BALTIMORE – Bending over a garden blooming with zinnia, Nidda Haseeb Al Dafrawi breathes in the fragrant perfume of the flowers and closes her eyes. [LOL! Did some handler tell her to smell the flowers for the reporter?—ed]
“They remind me of my house,” says the 70-year-old Iraqi woman. [Is she on SSI?—ed]
The house was in Baghdad. But the garden the former school headmistress now tends so lovingly is in a central square in Baltimore, Maryland.
Along with refugees from Sudan and Myanmar, Nidda regularly visits this urban horticultural oasis to plant flowers and vegetables which allow her to reconnect with her homeland.
Her green-fingered pursuits have been made possible by a program launched by the International Rescue Committee non-profit, New Roots.
New Roots was launched in the IRC’s San Diego resettlement office in 2007, with the aim of “reconnecting refugees to the culture of their homelands by growing food.”
The program now boasts 38 community gardens in 14 out of 22 cities where the IRC helps around 10,000 refugees each year as they adjust to life in the United States.
So, I guess we have taken care of all the needy Americans and have money for zinnias for Iraqis!
I always find it interesting to see the Top Posts at RRW each day, and you might too. As was the case yesterday, an older post was attracting the most attention—the one on MERS at Mecca, here.
The second most popular post in the last few days is the one on the UN dropping more hints that the West will be pressured into taking Syrian refugees, here. And, then the report on food stamp fraud is the third most visited post. See our right hand side bar for the complete list (which may have changed by the time you read this!).
Linked on our header above is our newly updated fact sheet which almost daily makes the top most-read posts.
Readers might also want to take note of our categories especially the one entitled, Where to find information, it is full of posts on where documents may be found, statistics on refugees and immigrants generally, and reports on programs, their costs and who is running the show.
And, as I have mentioned previously, our search function is a good one. Just type in a couple of key words—Buffalo NY refugees, for example—and everything we have written using those words will come up. I use it all the time because, after nearly 5,000 posts in 6 years, it’s sometimes hard to remember what we have written!
Another statistic of interest to me, but one you can’t see, is the search terms people use to find RRW. Yesterday the list was topped by people searching for Somalis Minneapolis, Somalis St. Cloud, and Somalis North Dakota.
We have readers from all over the world. Of course the US tops the list but is followed by these countries making up the top ten in the last 30 days: Australia, UK, Canada, Malta, Germany, Denmark, South Africa, India, and Thailand.
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I always find it interesting to see the Top Posts at RRW each day, and you might too. As was the case yesterday, an older post was attracting the most attention—the one on MERS at Mecca,